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F. ROEDER. FRAME FOB.- PORTA BLE LOOKING'GLASSES.

No; 270,130. Patented Jan. 2, 1883.

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I of said ends in the sockets or hearings will be UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

'FERDINAND ROEDER, OF FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, GERMANY.

F RAME FOR PORTABLE LOOKING-GLASSES.

SPECIFICATION t orming part of Letters Patent No. 270,130, dated January2, 1883.

Application filed February 13, 1882. (No model.) Patented in GermanyAugust 9, 1880, No.13,892; in France February 11, 1881.

No. 141,100; in England June 11, 1881, No. 2,545, and in Austria August27, 1881, No. 29,656.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FERDINAND ROEDER, of Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Frames for PortableLooking-Glasses and the like Articles, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in frames for portablelooking-glasses and the like articles; and it has for its object torender the same capable ofstanding or being suspended in any position.

The nature of my invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, andfully set forth in the following specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view ofa mirror and a prop therefor, attached thereto according to myinvention. Fig. 2 represents a view of the loop or wire prop, and theboxes wherein are the sockets or bearings for the ends of the loop orwire. Fig. 3 represents a partly-sectional back view of a mirror, alsoembodying my invention in a-slightly-modified form; and Fig. 4represents a partly-sectional back View of a mirror embodying stillanother modification of my invention.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

The essential feature of the invention consists 111 the loop or how AA,.of spring-wire,

Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, which at its two ends,

13 B, is ground or tapered to a conical shape.

These ends take into a box, 0, Figs. 1, 2, and 4, which terminates inconical recesses, sockets, or hearings; or they may take into a sleeveor tubular piece or box 0, Fig. 3, conically recessed at both ends toform "sockets or bearings. The resilience of the loop or how will keepits ends pressed tightlyinto the conical or tapered sockets orbearings,and thefriction such that a mirror provided with such loop orbow may be placed or set in any position and at any inclinationwhatsoever to the object on which itis to be placed or set, without therisk of its falling, the loop or wire forming a prop therefor; also, asany position can be givemto the loop or how, the-mirror may be suspendedfrom any object, and when handling the same the loop or how may be usedas a handle. The loop or how is constructed according to the shape ofthe glass or other like article, and it may be either quadrangular, asshown in Figs. 1 and 2, or it may be oval, as shown in Fig. 3, thecylindrical boxesO (shown in Fig. 2) being in this instance so contrivedas to form one box, the ends of which form the bearings tor the conicalor tapered ends of the loop or how A. In Fig. 4 the loop or how A is socontrived that its branches or legs A havea tendency to separate onefrom the other, while in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 they tend to approach eachother.

Although I have described andilluzstrated the invention as applied to ahand glass or mirror, it may beapplied in like manner to frames ofphotographs, pictures, and other like articles.

Having now described the nature of my invention and in what manner thesame maybe perlormed, I declare that I claim- 1 As an improvement inmeansfor sustaining portable frames, the conical or tapered extremitiesot' the spring bow or loop B B, bent at right angles in oppositedirections to have acommon axis, in co-operation with the conicalsockets (J O, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two sub scribing witnesses.

' FERDINAND ROEDER.

Witnesses:

FRAN HASSLACHER, AUGUST UNGER.

